Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Lift Barton Hill is the nearest published school at 100 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TQ2 8HQ
Barton with Watcombe · Torbay · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Barton with Watcombe
- Local authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay
- Postcode district
- TQ2
- Postcode sector
- TQ2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TQ2 8HQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- TQ
- Postcode district
- TQ2
- Postcode sector
- TQ2 8
- Latitude
- 50.489906
- Longitude
- -3.539364
- British National Grid easting
- 290,900
- British National Grid northing
- 66,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Torbay · E06000027
- Electoral ward
- Barton with Watcombe · E05012254
- Parish or community
- E43000022
- Westminster constituency
- Torbay · E14001551
- Output area
- E00077059
- Lower layer super output area
- Torbay 003H · E01034170
- Middle layer super output area
- Torbay 003 · E02003156
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore TQ2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 100 m
Lift Barton Hill
Academy sponsor led
- 359 m
The Lodestar Academy
Academy alternative provision sponsor led
- 823 m
St Cuthbert Mayne School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,265
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,050
- Shoplifting 252
- Anti social behaviour 210
- Criminal damage and arson 204
- Other theft 161
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TQ2 8 residents
- 8,677
Age bands in TQ2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.8%
1,503 residents
838 residents
1,839 residents
2,093 residents
1,849 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
CHILCOTE PRACTICE
CHILCOTE SURGERY, DEWERSTONE PRACTICE, HAMPTON AVENUE, TORQUAY, TQ1 3LA
ODS code L83111
1.6 km
SOUTHOVER MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRONSHILL ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ1 3HD
ODS code L83029
1.9 km
BRUNEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
ST. ALBANS ROAD, BABBACOMBE, TORQUAY, TQ1 3SL
ODS code L83013
2.0 km
CROFT HALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
19 CROFT ROAD, TORQUAY, TQ2 5UA
ODS code L83027
2.6 km
CHELSTON HALL SURGERY
OLD MILL ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6HW
ODS code L83118
3.0 km
KINGSKERSWELL & IPPLEPEN MED PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, SCHOOL ROAD, KINGSKERSWELL, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 5DJ
ODS code L83031
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Happaway Road
BCT · Barton
- 0.1 miles
Barton Hill School
BCT · Barton
- 0.1 miles
Happaway Road
BCT · Barton
- 0.1 miles
Beechfield Place
BCT · Barton
- 0.1 miles
Beechfield Place
BCT · Barton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Torbay 003H, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
10,100 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,265 published events cover 12 months, averaging 188.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,050 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.